Back Taxes

Lovely.

The Bush administration insisted on a little-noticed change in the bipartisan Senate immigration bill that would enable 12 million undocumented residents to avoid paying back taxes or associated fines to the Internal Revenue Service, officials said.

An independent analyst estimated the decision could cost the IRS tens of billions of dollars.

A provision requiring payment of back taxes had been in the initial version of a bill proposed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat. But the administration called for the provision to be removed due to concern that it would be too difficult to figure out which illegal immigrants owed back taxes.

There was another Kennedy who said, "we choose to go to the moon not because it is easy, but because it is hard."

Getting illegals to pony up on back taxes. Harder than a moon mission.

This bill is at least 326 pages, by the way.

(tip to HotAir)

Immigration Posted by AlexC at May 19, 2007 5:31 PM